Board of Commissioners Approve Putting Measure on General Election Ballot to Increase Board From Three to Five Commissioners

​OLYMPIA – Following a public hearing on Tuesday, July 19, the Thurston County Board of Commissioners (BoCC) passed a resolution in a 3-0 vote to put a ballot measure forward in the general election to ask the voters to increase the number of Thurston County Commissioners from three to five. If the ballot proposition receives majority voter approval, voters will vote incumbents into the two newly created positions during the general election in 2023.

Commissioners Search to Fill Consumer Representative on Board of Health
This representative must be a county resident who has faced significant health inequities.

Thurston County Accepting Grant Applications for Historic Preservation
 Applications must be received by August 31, 2022.

Thurston County Initiates Countywide Fire Safety Burn Ban
Current weather and fuel conditions create fire danger

In 2020, the Thurston County Auditor’s Office spent $344,860 to support elections using a grant we received from the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL). Grants from CTCL to other counties’ election offices are raising a lot of questions and generating disinformation. I am going to explain why we applied for the CTCL grant and what we spent the money on.